Based upon the Bruno Traven novel. Absolute power corrupts absolutely. Excellent, cynical, but deeply moving, anti-capitalist film dealing with corruption in 1930's Mexico, although the setting could easily be the US or anywhere else.
A dedicated landowner who loves his land and feels a sense of responsibility towards his workers refuses to sell his land to an oil company. However, when you have money, you make the rules and the law. What are the lives of the workers and land anyway to the wealthy elites who feel the "number games" and their superficial extracurricular sexual escapades are more important? One of the most spectacular scenes, you'll ever witness in a film depicting the absolute destruction of a land and eco-system by oil drilling. Your heart will bleed. It will bleed so much, you'll forget the ridiculous tacked on ending the film was given to pass the Mexican film censors, which depicts the nationalization of the oil industry and the workers and government coming together to create a new democratic Mexico of the people for the people. Obviously justice can never be achieved in the present, because neither the family nor the land can ever be unspoiled; nor can it be achieved in the future as the ruling elite have not been disposed of power.
A dedicated landowner who loves his land and feels a sense of responsibility towards his workers refuses to sell his land to an oil company. However, when you have money, you make the rules and the law. What are the lives of the workers and land anyway to the wealthy elites who feel the "number games" and their superficial extracurricular sexual escapades are more important? One of the most spectacular scenes, you'll ever witness in a film depicting the absolute destruction of a land and eco-system by oil drilling. Your heart will bleed. It will bleed so much, you'll forget the ridiculous tacked on ending the film was given to pass the Mexican film censors, which depicts the nationalization of the oil industry and the workers and government coming together to create a new democratic Mexico of the people for the people. Obviously justice can never be achieved in the present, because neither the family nor the land can ever be unspoiled; nor can it be achieved in the future as the ruling elite have not been disposed of power.